21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 693 - 689: Battle (Please subscribe, please vote for monthly tickets)

They still observed some basic moral bottom lines in their line of work, although they killed, they did not wantonly slaughter the innocent. In general, they were just people who took money to do jobs.

These mercenaries had simply been close to Ritsuko Kusanagi initially and, after planning to quit the business and wash their hands of it, came to Japan through her connections and started a security company in Tokyo, offering supernatural bodyguard services to some particularly wealthy tycoons.

However, the favor they owed back then now needed to be repaid.

But repaying this favor was not so easy.

"Ptui!" Tom Dumps Udenta spat out the blood in his mouth, still feeling the burning pain under his ribs, a wound inflicted by Kyoko Kojo's blade.

As former mercenaries, these now bodyguards' professions mostly had to do with combat, with a few excelling in tracking and analysis. So, after taking on Ritsuko Kusanagi's request, they had little difficulty following Minami and maintaining a distance for surveillance, a feat not even the two Sub-Legendary who had met up with Minami successively had noticed.

After Yoshiharu Tsuchimikado drove into the Divine domain of Meiji Shrine, they thought they had lost the trail, but when the other party came out, they discovered and kept close on their heels immediately.

But nobody expected that the targets they intended to stop were two Sub-Legendary—they had only prepared to face one.

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Twice the enemies, twice the trouble. What was originally a trap for catching wild boars suddenly had to contend with a rhino. Unsurprisingly, it wasn't nearly enough to hold, and two Sub-Legendary Transcendents quickly freed themselves.

Given the situation, Tom Dumps Udenta, a mixed-blood Transcendent with a Japanese surname and an American first name, had no choice but to engage the opposition with his subordinates.

Despite living for several years in the bustling yet peaceful Tokyo, which seemed to have stripped Udenta and his men of the scent of gunpowder, their skills hadn't dulled. Although they were mostly Formal Rank Transcendents, and Udenta himself was only an Expert Level, they managed to hold off Kojo Kyoko and Tsuchimikado Yoshiharu until the arrival of Kusanagi Ritsuko and Yamada Nobuyosuke.

The cost was high, though: Udenta and his subordinates were all injured, with two of them critically wounded and near death. And this was the result of the enemies not even intending to take lives.

"I never expected that the Mingyue Society would dispatch two of its three leaders tonight. It seems you really place great importance on tonight's affair!" Yamada Nobuyosuke said, eying Kojo Kyoko and Tsuchimikado Yoshiharu warily.

Although both were Sub-Legendary, the thought of them serving that fearsome Human Demi-God made it clear to Nobuyosuke that they could not be measured by the standard of ordinary Sub-Legendary fighters.

"It's just the chairman's orders," Yoshiharu replied to Nobuyosuke as his Shikigami began to emerge from his shadow. "Honestly, I would prefer not to be at odds with the Metropolitan Police Department, as I am a director of the Supernaturalist Association after all. Being on the wrong side of the officials could cost me my job."

"Then might I ask you to stay here for a while? As soon as we ascertain that there is no threat, you will naturally be free to go," Nobuyosuke asked Yoshiharu. If he could avoid a fight, all the better. Though confident in his own victory, the mercenaries that Ritsuko had brought, and she herself, would likely not survive.

Moreover, a critical point was that a battle involving two Sub-Legendary and one Legendary could cause serious destruction, and they weren't far from the Meiji Shrine. If they accidentally roused the two Ghouls there, he certainly did not have the power to resist deities.

However, Yoshiharu's next words dashed his hopes: "I'm sorry, but the chairman has instructed me to deliver our guests to the Tokyo Skytree at all costs. So... I'm afraid I must be discourteous!"

Following Yoshiharu's words, both he and Kojo Kyoko's shadows began to roil.

"Watch out for their shadows!" Udenta shouted upon seeing this, and he immediately attacked his own shadow.

A blade, as if condensed from the shadows themselves, thrust out from Udenta's shadow toward him, but his strike disrupted its momentum, allowing him to narrowly avoid the stab aimed at his lower abdomen.

Nobuyosuke and Ritsuko were taken aback by this ability to launch attacks from shadows, something they had never encountered before.

Although neither Nobuyosuke nor Ritsuko had the foresight of Udenta, who had learned from prior mishaps, they too were seasoned veterans and not so easily ambushed.

Nobuyosuke drew his katana and severed the black lance thrust at him. With a flick of his foot, he charged towards Kojo Kyoko and Tsuchimikado Yoshiharu. Now that hostilities had commenced, the only option was a swift and decisive battle.

But it wasn't just Kyoko's shadow that was boiling; from Yoshiharu's shadow arose a black samurai, a lance in hand blocking Nobuyosuke's path.

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